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You should create a good and unique profile. And put your real picture. Follow some people who is interested with you niche. Or You can try to use some twitter tools in following them. If they don't follow you back, you can use twitter karma to unfollow them. I know there are many guidelines about handling twitter account. You can search it over the net.

Tweet interesting news, funny items get quick retweets, doing so you can achieve good amount of followers.
Next find profiles with higher followers. If one has 2000 followers but he is following only 2 people, then he's not the guy you should follow. On the otherhand if oen has 2000 followers and he is following 1500 people then simply follow him. You will get lots of followers through him.

Including links to your twitter profile on email/forum signatures is a good way. When you have a page/site/blog, connect them and other social media profiles to your Twitter page, and ask people to recommend your profile.

there are actually tools that can help you add more twitter followers. but i think one most important way of adding twitter followers is by building relationship with bloggers and establishing a credibility on twitter.

Do you want followers and not targeted followers? If all you want is followers then a very good way is to choose someone with a very high follow count and follow all of their followers. A lot of them will have auto-follow. Wait a day or two and unfollow those that didn't follow. Rinse and repeat. Really, this can get you several thousand followers in a few weeks time. But very untargeted followers and it can be a bit time consuming. But it will increase your followers.

If I can remember, there was a site which allows you to specifically search for tweets based on certain keywords. From there, you can actually follow people similar to your niche. It's a I follow you, you follow me.

i have never been on twitter. i am just starting out with a sex toy website and trying to get traffic and build links. Would a twitter account help this and can i link to my site from twitter? would this be a good link to have. How do you get people to your twitter site?

Would a twitter account help this and can i link to my site from twitter? would this be a good link to have. How do you get people to your twitter site?

Yes, you can add a web url to your profile. It's a good link in the sense that it tells people how to find more information, but it's no good for SEO, as with any other link you might tweet. All urls, including your profile url, have nofollow set so google will ignore it

you could follow a hundred or thousands first, then they will follow you. if you follow someone but he didn't follow you after a day or two, then you should un-follow him and follow someone else that will do the same on you.